Populating Array With XML Elements

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oliverj777

Populating Array With XML Elements

in Programming Questions • 1 year ago

Hello,

I've been trying to solve this for sometime now, and I'm stumped. What I'm doing is connecting to the BBC website and pulling the story out of this particular article. I can pull the data from the site fine, what I want to do is populate an array with some info thats being pulled.

int a;
int foundIntroLine;
String Articles[] = new String[10];
void setup(){
a = foundIntroLine;
while(a < bbcPage.length){
int indexArticle = bbcPage[a].indexOf("<p>");
int endArticle = bbcPage[a].indexOf("</p>");
if(indexArticle > 0 && endArticle > 0){
println("Article: "+bbcPage[a].substring(indexArticle + 3, endArticle));
}
a++;
}
//now I want to populate Articles[0 - 9] with the bbcPage.substring
}

The foundIntroLine is a value that is established somewhere else, its where all the article lines start on the web page, bbcPage is an array that uses 'loadStrings' from the BBC URL.

Now, how would I go about populating Articles with the bbcPage.substrings?

Thanks

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dr.mo

Re: Populating Array With XML Elements

1 year ago

it's not clear what bbcPage is, but i am assuming it's a list of strings. in that case why don't you just assign the substring (which is just a string, right?) to one of the lines in the Articles list (also a list of strings). i.e

if(indexArticle > 0 && endArticle > 0){
println("Article: "+bbcPage[a].substring(indexArticle + 3, endArticle));
Articles[a++] = bbcPage[a].substring(indexArticle + 3, endArticle);
}

also, your declaration of "Articles" should be

String[] articles = new String[9]; // not String Articles[] = new String[9]

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